Board Member / Charity Trustee

The ICEL is a Centre of the School of Law of Trinity College Dublin, constituted as a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity, with an independent Board. The Board chairperson is the Centre’s President, Advocate General Anthony M Collins.

The Centre serves the legal professions, legal academics, law students, public institutions, the voluntary sector, businesses, and the wider public.

The ICEL seeks applications for appointment as ordinary members of its Board, who are charity Trustees and volunteers.

For ordinary Board members, a range of skills is sought, both within and outside the legal sector, to devise and implement a strategy of legal education and research in relation to EU and human rights law for the public and for the legal sectors and to participate in the governance of the Centre as a company and a registered charity.

Responsibilities will include the following:

• Providing input to the strategic direction of the ICEL and contributing with insight, oversight, and experience of strategy formulation in the sector

• Policy formation, planning and implementation as required

• Governance responsibilities, including service on Committees

Essential Skills/Qualities required for the role:

• An understanding of and commitment to the Centre’s objects, in particular education and research in relation to the law of the European Union and Council of Europe.

• Commitment to highest levels of corporate governance.

Desirable Skills/Qualities/Profile required for Board members:

• A deep appreciation and knowledge of the legal education and/or continuing professional development sectors.

• Any of the following profiles:-

• Persons with significant commercial experience;
• Persons with experience of fundraising in charitable or voluntary organisations (including applications for grant funding); or
• Persons with experience in marketing/digital communications;
• Persons with experience in event management and planning;
• Practising or retired Solicitors, Barristers, In-House Counsel, Academics, Judges or other legal professionals in Ireland or Northern Ireland, particularly those with experience of EU and/or human rights law.
  
  

General duties of a Charity Trustee

• Comply with the Centre’s Constitution and governance policies

• Ensuring that the Centre is complying with its charitable purpose for the public benefit

• Acting in the best interest of the Centre

• Act with Reasonable Care and Skill

• Manage the assets of the Centre prudent

There will be 4 board meetings per year.
There will also be meetings of Committees which some ordinary Board members may be requested to attend.
Board and Committee meetings are typically held online and otherwise are held in Trinity College, Dublin.